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Knassmüller, Monika – Teaching Public Administration, 2016
As the integration of academic teaching and research with communities of practice is considered a major concern of public administration since its founding as a field, professional programmes were established on the premise that there is a positive relationship between practice and scholarship. However, the balance between them is considered…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Classroom Techniques, Theory Practice Relationship, Communities of Practice
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Ferris, Helena A.; Collins, Mary E. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The landscape of medical education is continuously evolving, as are the needs of the learner. The appropriate use of research and evaluation is key when assessing the need for change and instituting one's innovative endeavours. This paper demonstrates how research seeks to generate new knowledge, whereas evaluation uses information acquired from…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Evidence, Evaluation Methods, Models
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Levin, Ben – Review of Education, 2013
This paper is about the relationship between research, policy and practice in education. It outlines reasons for the increased interest in research and its impact and describe some of the difficulties in studying this relationship. A conceptualization of the knowledge mobilization process is presented that identifies three overlapping and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Research Needs
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Hochbein, Craig; Perry, Jill A. – Planning and Changing, 2013
The authors argue for a clearer understanding of the role of research in the preparation of educational professionals at the doctoral level. Building on the work of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), the authors define the nature of problems of practice, offer three ways in which professional practitioners engage research in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Research Utilization, Professional Education, Educational Practices
de Forest, Jennifer – Independent School, 2010
Education researchers constantly bemoan teachers as resistant to implementing their findings. At the same time, teachers complain that education research is either too esoteric to be of any use in a real classroom or an exercise in proving the obvious. This persistent research-practice chasm is maintained by both the prosaic details of how and…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Private Schools, Educational Research, Research Utilization
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Little, Judith Warren – American Journal of Education, 2012
Despite the growing volume of research on data use systems or data use activities in which teachers engage, micro-process studies--investigations of what teachers and others actually do under the broad banner of "data use" or "evidence-based decision making"--remain substantially underdeveloped. Starting with a review of the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Investigations, Decision Making, Evaluation Utilization
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Korthagen, Fred A. J. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
Increasingly, teachers--but also parents and politicians--voice dissatisfaction with the divide they experience between research and practice and the resulting minimal impact of teacher education (Ashton, 1996; Barone, Berliner, Blanchard, Casanova, & McGowan, 1996). The problem seems to be perennial. More than a century ago, John Dewey pointed…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Research Problems, Research Utilization
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Kerlinger, Fred N. – Educational Researcher, 1977
Three major propositions discussed in this article include: (1) There are two major obstacles to research influencing educational practice in the long term. (2) These are the pragmatic-practical notion that research should pay off and that it should be relevant to contemporary social and educational problems. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Educational Practices, History, Interaction, Research Needs
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Smith, B. Othanel; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1983
In reaction to presentations at the Airlie House Conference on the Implications of Research on Teaching for Practice, two papers (by O. Smith and N. L. Gage, respectively) discuss how far research on teaching has come as a field, while a third (by G. D. Fenstermacher) explains how implications of research on teaching can be used. (MP)
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Research Needs
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Gunter, Maynard – Studies in Art Education, 1981
In view of the concerns for making connections between research and practice, improving art teaching, and refocusing and teaming in research, a new strategy for research and practice is in order. We need to move from practice to research, as well as from the traditional direction of research to practice. (Author)
Descriptors: Art Education, College School Cooperation, Educational Practices, Educational Research
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West, Leonard J. – Business Education Forum, 1973
Discusses instructional implications of research in business education, pointing out curricular and research needs. (AG)
Descriptors: Business Education, Educational Needs, Educational Practices, Educational Research
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Gephart, William J. – Educational Leadership, 1972
Article asks whether research has failed the educational system, and whether money spent for research been spent for nothing. (ML)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria
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Haney, Walt – Review of Educational Research, 1984
The research and development of mental (standardized) testing and its relationship to educational practice is traced historically from its pre-World War I roots to its controversial national prominence in the 1970s. How standardized tests have been used in research and in schools is analyzed. (BS)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Educational History, Educational Practices
Goodnow, Wilma Elizabeth – 1983
In order for researchers to develop principles for successful adult education, they must use both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The first step in developing principles for adult education is to describe education and practices through descriptive research that objectively quantifies and classifies aspects of practice. Through an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Models
Owens, Thomas R.; Crohn, Leslie – 1984
Because vocational researchers and practitioners have not been able to reach a consensus concerning criteria for judging excellence in vocational education and have been unable to agree on exactly which factors lead to successful programs, research in vocational education has had limited impact on improving practice. Two sets of research findings…
Descriptors: Business, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Industrial Training
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